Ryan clenched his jaw tightly and glared at Dean hostilely. Mia forced on a smile and chided him, “Why bring up something like that now, Dean?” Dean glanced at her, pretending to be clueless as he asked, “What do you mean, Mia? I thought I heard Ryan tell my sister to prepare her resignation letter earlier. I’m just confirming if I heard right. Is that wrong?” Mia pressed her lips tightly together as she couldn’t think of anything wrong with what he said, but at the same time, there was everything wrong with it. She just couldn’t wrap her finger around it. Joseph was also about to say something when he realized he had nothing to say. Emma was grinning from ear to ear seeing how Joseph and his children were unable to criticize her family. As an awkward silence seeped in, she sighed softly, “Aria’s proposal was so good the president whom no one knew existed created a new position just for it.” “Dean, what was that thing he said about proposals that will only be given the title of
However, instead of hitting Aria’s face, her palm landed on Leon’s back. He had walked in with Aria, so when he saw Stella raise her hand to hit Aria, he turned and hugged her tightly to himself, shielding her from receiving the slap. When Stella saw this, she boiled with rage, “What is this? Is this how you kept disobeying your uncle in South Ville?” “M-mother-in-law, what are you talking about?” Emma stuttered in disbelief, finding the situation confusing. Stella shifted her attention from Aria to her and instantly lashed out at her. “You call me your mother-in-law, but you do the opposite of everything I tell you to do.” Before Emma could find her tongue to retort, Anthony stepped forward and knitted his brows into a tight frown. “What is this about, mother? Aria got the investment like you wanted her to. Why hit her instead of praising her for a job well done?” Stella clenched her jaw tightly snorted angrily, “Your brother called me on his way back to Wentworth and he told
“No! No! No!” Those were the words Leon heard as he walked back to their room in the morning with a glass of milk. He increased his pace and got to their room to find Aria scrambling out of bed in panic. He walked closer to her and mumbled worriedly, “Did anything happen, Aria?” “No. I mean, yes. It’s 8am already. I should’ve been at the company an hour ago, but I overslept. Why didn’t you wake me? You should’ve woken me, Leon!” Aria hurriedly said as she made the bed. Leon hid the mischievous smile tugging the corners of his lips as he lowered his face to the floor and said softly, “I-you were sleeping so comfortably I didn’t want to disturb you. I’m sorry.” Hearing him, Aria paused what she was doing and glanced at him to see him lowering his eyes to the floor like he had done something wrong.She scratched her forehead gently and sighed softly. “You didn’t do anything wrong. Thank you for the milk.” Then she ran into the bathroom to take her bathe. As soon as she was inside
The second bulky man refused to believe his comrade was out cold and called out to him like he usually did. “Hey, man, what are you still doing on the floor? Get up, we need to leave.” Ten seconds went by without him getting a response. That was when he realized Leon had really knocked his comrade out. He tossed aside the two children he was holding and cracked his fingers in rage.The third man grabbed the children roughly and probed the bulky man anxiously, “I don’t know what’s going on here, but hurry up and take care of them, the clients are waiting for us already!”“Like you need to tell me.” The bulky man scoffed and continued advancing towards Leon. After seeing Leon take care of the first man, Anthony no longer worried about him. So he got into the car again and watched from inside. Leon suddenly frowned as the bulky man got closer and took a step backward. “Don’t come any closer, that face of your is hideous.” The bulky man snorted and continued advancing towards him. T
Thanks to the tempered glass, Robert Weathers could see the people inside the restaurant. His eyes flickered across the place for a moment before he turned to the van again and dragged out a severely bartered woman. Her eyes and cheeks were swollen and her lips were bled from all sides. The state of her face almost made it impossible for Anthony and Leon to recognize her. After a few seconds, Leon recognized her to be the mother of the boy they had rescued from Robert and taken back to the rescue home. .His eyes dimmed slightly and he pointed it out to Anthony, “Father-in-law, it’s the woman from the rescue home.” When Anthony recognized her, he panicked and shot out of his seat. He was about to stroll towards the door of the restaurant when he saw a dozen thugs holding axes and daggers climb out of the van to stand behind Robert. Robert pulled the woman by the hair and barked something into her face. Unfortunately, they were outside and far from Leon and Anthony. Hence, they
Anthony was speechless and had no idea what to do. This was the first time he was facing something like this. He had been doing this work for the past 25 years and none of the men he rescued children from ever found him. He reasoned since they hadn’t found him for the past 25 years, they would never be able to. So now that it finally happened, he had no plan in mind. He clenched his jaw tightly and glared hard at the restaurant owner, “You can’t do that! Don’t you see the weapons they’re wielding? If you send us out there, there’s no telling what will happen to us!” “To say the least, you and everyone in this restaurant will become an accessory to murder. That’ll be bad for your business, so you should hurry up and call the police!” The restaurant glared back at him and retorted, “You offended Keegan Gyst, he may not be the most dangerous person in Wentworth, but he’s someone you do not want to cross and neither do I.” “Furthermore, he has people in the police. If he finds out I
Robert Weathers scoffed seeing Leon maintain his confident stance. He looked away and slipped out his phone from his pocket, opened the camera app and started video recording. “I’ll record you being beaten up so I can watch it when you’re long dead to remind myself someone as stupid as you lived before.” Leon ignores him and slipped his hands into his pockets, sizing up the dozen thugs running towards him with his eyes. They all had their daggers and axes raised high up in the air. Their movements were erratic and uncoordinated. No doubt, these were just average people who were recruited by Keegan Gyst and given weapons. The first thug to get close to Leon charged at with a wild overhead swing of his axe. Leon stepped to the side at that very moment, just in time to save his arm from being hacked off.As the thug stumbled past him, Leon grabbed the his wrist, twisted it, and disarmed him in a single fluid motion. “Arghh!” Before the others could react to their colleague’s pain
Leon still didn’t respond. The silence was killing Robert. Every second that went by, the more the back of his shirt got soaked sweat. He peeled his eyes open and swallowed dryly when he saw the blank, unimpressed look on Leon’s face. He couldn’t take it any longer and cried out, “I’ll do anything you want me to. Anything. Just name it!” Leon’s expression finally cracked into a small smile. “Go meet my father-in-law. He’s the one who cares about stuffs like this.” Robert nodded without hesitation before the thugs dragged him to Anthony. Anthony would’ve jumped in fright seeing the thugs and Robert walking towards him had Leon not been with them. As soon as he got to him, Robert pointed at the woman, who was still sprawled on the ground sobbing quietly. “I will return this woman’s child to her and also lead you to Keegan’s next big transaction. I will also tell you whenever he’s about to take another kid. I’ll help you put him out of business.” Anthony stared at him with a susp